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Small animal causes more than 5,000 residents in Wayne County to lose power, Duke Energy says

WRAL.com · last updated

More than 5,000 people lost power Sunday night due to an outage in Wayne County.

According to a Duke Energy spokesperson, the outage was caused by a small animal damaging equipment, and they are expecting power to be restored by 1:15 a.m.

As of 11 p.m., just over 3,000 customers are without power.

This is the third large outage caused by an animal since May 5. On Monday, nearly 10,000 customers in Durham lost power. Then on Thursday, 7,000 residents were left in the dark in Rolesville.

Duke Energy later confirmed that snakes came into contact with substation equipment in Durham and Rolesville, causing the outages.

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